On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Robin Atwood wrote: >> On Saturday 07 Mar 2009, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> I seem to recall that Kdar or dar had a bug that lead to it being >>> masked. This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be >>> worth checking into to make sure. Nothing worse than thinking you have >>> backups when they are worthless. >>> >> >> Kdar became incompatible with later versions of libdarapi but then it was >> fixed and now works well again. Dar is extremely fast compared to tar, >> especially when restoring. It is probably best to use scripts to perform >> nightly backups (lots of examples on the web site) and the GUI for those >> times when you want to restore those couple of files you just munged. :) >> Dar also has options for running an external utility at the end of each >> backup 'slice', so writing the archive to DVD would be an option. >> >> HTH >> -Robin >> > > > That's good to know. I was hoping it was fixed but did notice it was > masked still so I wasn't sure as to why. > > May have to test it again now myself. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
Kdar looks to be what I needed. I will post reports after doing a full out backup/restore test tomorrow James Wall
